{"id":34854,"date":"2010-03-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:15:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:15:32","slug":"words_of_praise_for_liz_cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/10\/words_of_praise_for_liz_cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Praise for Liz Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: You know, this is amazing. It\u2019s actually not amazing. That\u2019s too much of a cliche. But I guess it\u2019s fair to say even after 20-plus years I\u2019m still surprised by things. I have been, the past couple of days, getting e-mails from Drive-By Media members and all of a sudden in both e-mail accounts (the members e-mail address at RushLimbaugh.com and the public e-mail address), ‘Liz Cheney? Liz Cheney? How come you\u2019re not talking about Liz Cheney? Does Liz Cheney embarrass you with this Al-Qaeda 7 business? How come you\u2019re not talking about Liz Cheney, hmm?\u2019 My first reaction is, ‘What does it matter what I say about Liz Cheney?\u2019 But then I realized: Nothing is said about Liz Cheney \u2019til I say it. Nothing is said about moving to Costa Rica unless I say it. Nothing is said about health care \u2019til I say it. When I say it, it\u2019s been said. But it hasn\u2019t been said unless I say it. So Liz Cheney. If you\u2019re not aware of the controversy, Liz Cheney has a group that\u2019s devoted to protecting America against foreign threats including terrorism. <\/line> <\/line>Eric Holder is attempting to overthrow the US Department of Justice, along with Obama\u2019s efforts to overthrow the United States as we\u2019ve known it, as it was founded. Holder hired some lawyers to be in the Justice Department and like seven of them or nine of them, I forget the exact number, had defended detainees at Club Gitmo, where we still have a thriving licensed merchandise business. In producing a video about this, Liz Cheney\u2019s group referred to these seven lawyers as ‘the Al-Qaeda 7,\u2019 and everybody started having cows out there. ‘How dare she? The Al-Qaeda 7? These people are not defending people who want to blow up America!\u2019 Well, they were. But now even people like Ken Starr are attacking Liz Cheney and others on the premise of, ‘Hey, look, even the biggest reprobate in the world deserves a defense, according to the US Constitution.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what this is about! Nobody\u2019s upset that these guys defended. What we\u2019re curious about is why the hell did they end up in the Justice Department? How the hell did they end up in there and why won\u2019t Holder tell us who they are? Bernie Goldberg had the greatest analogy of this that I\u2019ve heard yet. I think it was Bernie Goldberg. He said, ‘Look, if this were the Bush administration, and any of his attorney generals had secretly put seven lawyers who had defended the Ku Klux Klan in the Justice Department Civil Rights Division and would not announce their names, do you think that the media and the Democrats would say, ‘Oh, yeah. Well, every client deserves a defense.” There is a fundamental argument going on in this country over the fact that we are threatened by militant Islamists who have made their intentions very clear and they\u2019ve acted on them countless times, and — here\u2019s the whole context — we have an administration that doesn\u2019t appear to take the threat seriously!<\/p>\n

We have an administration who, giving them the benefit of the doubt, believe that it\u2019s partially our fault and that if we would just engage in some ‘outreach\u2019 to the Islamists and show them that we have a great set of values here and the American dream is alive and well, and say, ‘No matter what you do to us, we will still tie both hands behind our back to be fair dealing with you,\u2019 and until we do that we will not garner once again the respect of the world that was lost during the Bush years. Well, I don\u2019t know if anybody\u2019s seen the polls lately, but respect for the United States since Obama took over is plummeting! Now, as far as I know, nobody in the Liz Cheney organization is suggesting these people don\u2019t deserve representation or lawyers. One thing that I\u2019m confident in saying is that they should be tried in military tribunals and bringing them into civil courts in the United States is an absolute abomination of a mistake. <\/p>\n

This administration has made it clear that they don\u2019t have much interest in the defense of this country from this particular enemy, and so there are people that are very much concerned that that laxity on that issue be dealt with. So if Liz Cheney and her group want to call this bunch of Department of Justice lawyers ‘the Al-Qaeda 7,\u2019 (snorts) fine with me. I wish I\u2019d-a come up with it. What\u2019s the difference in that and the Chicago Seven? What\u2019s the difference in that and the FALN 32? I think it\u2019s pretty clever, and it sure as hell got everybody\u2019s attention, didn\u2019t it? And everybody wants to know what I think about Liz Cheney. Well, now, you know, I would much rather have Liz Cheney and her group in charge of defending this country than Eric Holder, Barack Obama and that ‘sis,\u2019 Janet Napolitano. I would much rather have Liz Cheney and anybody she knows at the Department of Justice as attorney general. I\u2019d much rather have her at the State Department. <\/p>\n

I\u2019d much rather have her in the White House or anywhere, than any of these people. I\u2019d rather have Sarah Palin there than Eric Holder. I\u2019d rather have Sarah Palin there than Barack Obama. None of this is a mystery to me. People say, ‘Well, Sarah Palin, she\u2019s so stupid!\u2019 (snorts) Obama is a piercing light of intelligence?\u2019 You know, that\u2019s another good point. These same people — these same people, Eric Holder and whoever the hell else is in that Department of Justice with him and Obama — are trying to criminalize Bybee and John Yoo for the CIA interrogation techniques that led to the uncovering of the mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and what he did and buddies and so forth. They want to criminalize the interrogation process!<\/p>\n

The way we look at it here we\u2019ve got an administration who thinks the enemy is the United States of America, and so if we think that they think that the problem in the world is us, and they\u2019re going to bring in lawyers that they won\u2019t name to the DOJ who have defended pro bono — and Holder\u2019s own firm about this, by the way, pro bono defense of Guantanamo detainees. If they\u2019re going to bring \u2019em in there, then when you put everything together say, ‘Why? What\u2019s the message? Are they more qualified to be in the DOJ because they\u2019ve talked to these guys and they\u2019ve had them as clients? Does it somehow give them a greater understanding of the enemy?\u2019 If so, tell us. If that\u2019s the reason, tell us that\u2019s why you\u2019re doing it. Tell us who they are. I mean, for crying out loud! The left will always tell us who scares the hell out of \u2019em, and right now Liz Cheney scares the hell out of them. They\u2019ll always tell us. Paul Ryan, they\u2019re going after him, folks. They\u2019ve been going after Sarah Palin. They will always tell us who frighten them. So, am I embarrassed by what Liz Cheney\u2019s done? No. I\u2019m scared to death about what Obama and Holder are doing. Please!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Before we get to the phones, just one thing more here. Remember the Attorney General during Bush\/Gonzales was excoriated for firing nine US attorneys for, quote, unquote, political reasons, and they tried once again to frog march Karl Rove into jail over it with never-ending investigations. And Bill Clinton fired all 93 — or whatever the number was in 1993 when he took office. This is something presidents do. Bush shoulda done this years before he did it. So we\u2019re not supposed to notice that Eric Holder hired seven attorneys for really ugly political reasons and we\u2019re not supposed to question it, given everything else we know about this administration\u2019s thinking on foreign policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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